University of Maryland School of Medicine

Staff members involved in high-performance computing at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) stand at the intersection of many scientific disciplines and try to create computational innovations that impact as many of those disciplines as possible. Over the last several years, an ORNL team led by Sreenivas Rangan Sukumar, former group leader for the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility’s Advanced Data and Workflow Group, has been developing a computational tool for connecting the dots between disparate medical discoveries recorded in the literature...

The launch of the Precision Medicine Initiative in 2015, along with this year's Cancer Moonshot, have touted the promise of genomic data for population health and more personalized diagnosis. As a result, more consumers are seeking genetic testing and more researchers are contributing to these initiatives. But the healthcare industry isn't necessarily prepared for this shift. The popularity of genetic testing doesn't come without risks, according to Mayo Clinic's recent report, The Promise and Peril of Precision Medicine...